Should Triangles Wear Top Hats?

Like all great fashion epiphanies, I had this one while watching E! Live From the Red Carpet. Why don’t triangles wear hats? There are so many to choose from! I had to change things.

So I did what anyone would do. I sent an email blast to triangles, even the scalene ones, inviting them to a neighborhood happy hour. I picked triangles because historically they are the most responsive to emails. At least this is what Pythagoras wrote in his diary.

Two days later, the triangles showed up.

I could tell they were thrilled, so I got straight to the point.

“I am going to get straight to the point. Your fashion sense is nonexistent and you should all wear hats. Preferably top hats for the alliteration.” I pointed to a box of hats.

“Imagine a world” — I could feel the excitement building inside of me — “where triangles walk runways in Paris or get 12-page editorial spreads in Vogue!”

The triangles blinked. In math, ideas of great significance take time to sink in.

Then I heard a voice. “How will people know what the angle measures are if everything is obstructed by a hat?”

I said that in the grand scheme of things, the measure of an angle in one corner of a triangle never really mattered to anyone.

Wow. Chills!

I think this could solve the global math crisis. I really do